Book Description
Thirty-seven chilling exercises in the art of murder and suspense.
Author : Alfred Hitchcock
Publisher : Random House (NY)
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 40,64 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Thirty-seven chilling exercises in the art of murder and suspense.
Author : John McCarty
Publisher : St Martins Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 15,72 MB
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780312017101
Provides the cast, credits, and plot summary for all ten year's of Hitchcock's television series, and recounts how the shows were made
Author : Patrick Mcgilligan
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 900 pages
File Size : 28,37 MB
Release : 2004-09-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780060988272
In a career that spanned six decades and more than sixty films, Alfred Hitchcock became the most widely recognized director who ever lived. His films -- including The 39 Steps, Notorious, Rear Window, Vertigo, Psycho, and The Birds -- set new standards for cinematic invention and storytelling Élan. Since his death, Hitchcock has become crystallized in the public imagination as the macabre Englishman, the sexual obsessive, the Master of Suspense. But this remarkable biography draws on prodigious new research to restore Hitchcock the man -- the ingenious craftsman, the avid collaborator, the constant trickster, provocateur, and romantic. Like Hitchcock's best films, Patrick McGilligan's life of Hitchcock is a drama full of revelation, graced by a central love story, dark humor, and cliff-hanging suspense: a definitive portrait of the most creative, and least understood, figure in film history.
Author : Peter Conrad
Publisher :
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 37,49 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780571210602
Alfred Hitchcock relished his power to frighten us and believed the shocks he administered improved our psychological health. But he could never satisfactorily explain our curiosity to see forbidden things or the perverse desire to experience anxiety and dread that made his work so popular. In The Hitchcock Murders, Peter Conrad, one of Hitchcock's eager victims, undertakes the task on the master's behalf. At the age of thirteen, Conrad snuck into his first screening of Psycho, and he's been wary of showers and fruit cellars ever since. Thanks to Hitchcock, he's also suspicious of staircases, seagulls, and crop-dusting planes. Now he sets out to analyze the nature of Hitchcock's appeal to both himself and the millions of moviegoers for whom Hitchcock is cinema's foremost auteur. Examining Hitchcock's use of religion, morality, conscience, culpability, and literary symbols, Conrad unveils a chilling Nietzschean universe-one in which there is no God and no moral standard, where humans are petty and disposable and the neutral hand of fate can take a life in the blink of an eye. A timid, respectable man with the imagination of a psychopath, a chubby jester whose practical jokes took merciless advantage of human insecurities, Hitchcock is revealed here as the man who knew too much-about all of us.
Author : Alfred Hitchcock
Publisher : Random House Childrens Books
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 32,78 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Horror tales.
ISBN : 9780394926766
Sinister apparitions and other unnatural phenomena terrify unsuspecting citizens as avenging spirits seek retribution for their unhappy lives
Author : Alfred Hitchcock
Publisher :
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 38,49 MB
Release : 2005-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780883657270
47 tales of murder for profit, revenge, accident, or assassination are related with twists and turns, if necessary
Author : Alfred Hitchcock
Publisher :
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 47,95 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 31,52 MB
Release : 1965
Category :
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Author : Cathleen Jordan
Publisher : Smithmark Pub
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 42,78 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780831704377
Drawn from the pages of Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, this collection of more than thirty stories features the talents of Lawrence Block, Rob Kanter, Patricia Moyes, Chet Williamson, Taylor McCafferty, and George Chesbro.
Author : Robert A. Harris
Publisher : Citadel Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 13,12 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780806524276
A tribute to the undisputed master of terror and suspense and the visionary who revolutionised the art of filmmaking, this book covers everything from his 1922 silent film The Pleasure Garden to his final 1976 film, Family Plot, including such masterpieces as Vertigo, Psycho, Rear Window and The Birds, and the years of his popular television show, Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Complete with 450 b/w stills from his many films and a text that examines the background of each production, this is the ultimate portrait of the movie genius in all his cinematic glory.